The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107642720)

The Logic of Connective Action explains the rise of a personalized digitally networked politics in which diverse individuals address the common problems of our times such as economic fairness and climate change. Rich case studies from the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany illustrate a theoretical framework for understanding how large-scale connective action is coordinated using inclusive discourses such as "We Are the 99%" that travel easily through social media. In many of these mobilizations, communication operates as an organizational process that may replace or supplement familiar forms of collective action based on organizational resource mobilization, leadership, and collective action framing. In some cases, connective action emerges from crowds that shun leaders, as when Occupy protesters created media networks to channel resources and create loose ties among dispersed physical groups. In other cases, conventional political organizations deploy personalized communication logics to enable large-scale engagement with a variety of political causes. The Logic of Connective Action shows how power is organized in communication-based networks, and what political outcomes may result.

Author: W. Lance Bennett, Alexandra Segerberg
ISBN-10: 1107642728
ISBN-13: 9781107642720
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/26/2013
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2014